First read: New books from the Malazan Empire to an American humbug

1:08 PM,
Nov. 16, 2012

Written by

Anne Bendheim
@AnneBendheim

Working for a newspaper, we sometimes get tired of the news. Really. Truly. We leave the building and forage for fiction.

Sometimes, that leads to far-off lands and outlandish people doing odd things. Like being a 1950s housewife. Or a grim-faced detective in Victorian England. Or a two-headed beastie on the planet Ferkokta. Wait. Ferkokta? Is that near Antares?